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Joseph Mallord William TurnerEvery age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English artist born in 1775. Mallord William Turner contributed to the Romantic movement and died in 1851. Get notified when Joseph Mallord William Turner's biography is complete:

Self Portrait at age 16

1791

Fishermen at Sea

1796

Self Portrait

1799

Must toiling Man for ever meet disgrace, and eat his hard earn’d bread with heated face, and all his acts in dull Oblivion lay

On Labour, Creativity and Patriotism

1809

Hannibal and his Men crossing the Alps

1810-1812

Dido Building Carthage

1815

The Bass Rock

1824

The Battle of Trafalgar

1822-1824

The Bass Rock

1824

Waterside Buildings

1834

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight

1835

The Fighting Téméraire

1839

The Slave Ship

1840

War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet

1842

Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth

1842

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway

1844

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

I didn't know Picasso but he knew me

1746-1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Every age has its Star Boy — might as well be J.M.W. Turner

1775-1851

Gustave Doré

Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy

1832-1883
17011900
A phenom works himself to death
Anne-Louis Girodet
The quiet tragedy of the big big world
Caspar David Friedrich Joseph Mallord William Turner
Nature wins, every time
John Constable
Guardian of the old ways
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres